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"If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world."

“It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent."

"War requires every resource of taxation and credit." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1788. ME 7:224

"Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1784. FE 4:15, Papers 7:557

"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1785. ME 19:18, Papers 8:682

At tleast they're trying something instead of leaving things as they are, which we all agree is inadequate.

Regarding elderly and handicapped riders, all buses should stop for them if the rider waves the bus down. Maybe a special reflective card or some sort of telemetry to a receiver on the bus could be devised.

Motion detectors, timers and thermometers can control these sprinkers from a central location over WIFI. Shut them down when it's below 80 degrees, before 11 am, after 9pm, and when it's raining. If I can set my sprinkler system by iPhone, you can figure out something, too.

Motion detectors, timers and thermometers can control these sprinkers from a central location over WIFI. Shut them down when it's below 80 degrees, before 11 am, after 9pm, and when it's raining. If I can set my sprinkler system by iPhone, you can figure out something, too.

Don't believe the Certificate of Insurance. Demand a copy of the current policies in force and call the insurance companies yourself to verify whether the policy is paid up. Continue to check every week - 10 days while your project is underway. Do the same with the contractor's license. You could be named in any personal injury suit. You muight want to up your own coverage for the duration of the project.

Run some google searches to see if the contractor has filed liens against properties where's he's done work. Call those who have liens filed against them and get the hmeowner's story.